Those who know me will have no doubt that I am upset by the resignation of Steve Jobs… heck I’ve been using Apple products since the beginning of the nineties! I bought my first Apple machine in Hong Kong and remember looking at the “Next Cube” at an exhibition as an alternative and wondered whether it represented a better bet, but I stuck with my purchase of the PowerBook 140, I’ve never wavered since, despite some tricky times before Steve Jobs returned in 1997. Anyway its all history now! I’m on my nth Mac, a really slick 27″ iMac Core i7 with a screen to die for [2560 x 1440 pixels] running OS X Snow Leopard and with 16GB of RAM.
The great difference a Mac makes is its tremendous ease of use, this has always been the case. Ever since I first booted my PowerBook running OS 7, then of course the competition Windows 3.1 was no more than an ugly joke. Today the machine and its operating system is a seamless blend of productive joy! Thank You Steve Jobs, your every effort towards computer Utopia have been a pleasure to observe and use, even through the transition to OS X… the first offerings being like working in clay. Your resignation is painful, but I believe you have put in place a solid team to continue your exacting standards, which will bode well for years to come. May your health improve, I pray it does you deserve so.
On a lighter note, here is a quote from Tim Cook:
I want you to be confident that Apple is not going to change. I cherish and celebrate Apple’s unique principles and values. Steve built a company and culture that is unlike any other in the world and we are going to stay true to that — it is in our DNA. We are going to continue to make the best products in the world that delight our customers and make our employees incredibly proud of what they do.